Model railway express issue ten june 2018

January and February saw me laying track and putting in the new point system described above. I used paxillin ties at the edge of each board these were pinned to the boards and the track soldered to them thus giving me a bit more strength. Once the track was done I did the electrical wiring, this was kept simple just a bus bar-which was self-adhesive copper tape then dropper wires from each piece of track. The only other wiring was to the DPDT switch controlling the polarity of the points. I built each board separately and then using DC tried it out, must admit I was very pleased they all as individuals worked (let’s hope it’s the same when joined together! I managed to get all this done by the time of the Yate, & Sodbury Vale Railway show which I had already signed up to. The idea was to use another member of the Southern Renegades Modules with just a couple of mine joined to them, so people could see how these things get started and what they look like finished. So, I took module one and the fiddle yard.

It was excellent, worked well under DCC and we got a lot of good comments. We kept the same format a couple of weeks later for the Monmouth show. Again, all worked very well.

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